Possible change to all-time rankings

[flateric]

Hi
Just browsing through the all-time rankings and I saw that Yugoslavia had 5 points, with the flag of the SFR Yugoslavia, the old country which existed only up to 1992 and incorporated Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The name 'Yugoslavia' continued to be used as FR Yugoslavia, but was essentially the same country that we knew as 'Serbia and Montenegro' from 2003 to just last year, when the two countries split. The general gist of this is that Yugoslavia doesn't exist and FIFA considers Serbia to be the direct descendant team of the SFR Yugoslavia. I don't think that this should affect the actual points totals, but the name and flag should probably be changed to Serbia on the all-time rankings.
Hope this helps and love the site.

[jessekuiper]

I do not agree, because unlike Russia and Chezh Republic, Serbia has never been UFWC champion in its own right. So I think it not should changed until Serbia will gain the title somewhere in the future.

But if the table would be changed, something else should be changed in the same way on 15 December 2008.

On that day, the Netherlands Antilles will split up. Curacao and Sint Maarten will become independent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (like Aruba). The other three islands (Bonaire, Saba and Saint Eustatius) will become municipalities of the Netherlands. I think FIFA will accredit Curacao with the historical achievements of the Netherlands Antilles football team.

[kevinmce]

On the Wikipedia article I did place the achievements of Yugoslavia under the name and flag of Serbia, although that was mainly because somebody was insistent that it should otherwise separately list the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia, and FR Yugoslavia.

Frankly, I prefer the solution here.